National Republican., 1887-01-10

Dusseldorf festival was she the cantatrIce!
Neither. She was an invalid who never left
in prayer and she prayed down revival after
revival, and pentecost after pentecost upon
the churches, and with her pale hands she
with ber shee ne PoG ana
holiday festival, and now, with those thin
hands, 50 strong for kindness, and with those
whit white lips so strong for supplica,ion. she has
lee. And Christ says to the angels who have
brought each a crown for the glorlfled inva-
Ia: NO, not these they are not good enough.
side of my throne there is one that have
beeh preparing for her many a year, and for
her every pang have set an amethyst, and for
1t now and lulill the promise gave her long
ago in the sick room : BE thou faithful unto
death, and will give thee crownI'
bs H'a he haf Universe ass' wso i Gay saS sna ond
viii distribute the trophies Of earth
ibs ana heaven IL Is the Divine Warrior
the Son OF God, Jesus. You will take the spoils
from HIS hind or never take them at all Have
HIS iriendship and you may defy all time and
though you had q universe at your command.
We are told in Revelation that Jacobs twelve
sons were so honored as to have the twelve
gate OF heaven Nuphtali, over another gate of
heaven issachar. over another Dan, over au-
other CAD, over another Zebulon, over another
judah, and so on. But Christ's name Is writ.
ten over all the gates, and on every panel of
the gates and have His help, His pardon, His
inlsrcession, His atonement, I must, or ba a
,05iosn wretch forever W t Ny Lord and my God
all TO whom these words shall come, Thy re.
Pentant, believing, sworn, consecrated, and
rapsomed followers forever.
What day It will be This entire assem-
i2e it, the day in which. Christ shall in flhll-
ment Of my text divide the spoil. 1t was a
great day when Queen Victoria, in the mid,t
ofthe Crimean war: distributed medals to the
soldiers who had come home sick and
wounded. At the horse guards, In the press
enee OF the royal family, the injured men were
bridge, who lost both feet at Iukerman and
Capt. Sayer, who had the ankle Joint of his
IiEht Isg shot oil at Alma and Capt. Curre,h his
manned and disfigured, aud exhansted-and
with her own hand the queen gave each the
Crmean medal. And what triumphant days
LOT those soldiers when, further on, they 70;
eagle, ard The Turkish medal with iti repre-
sentati on OF four flags-France Turkey, Eng
land, and sardinia-and beneath 1t map OF
the Crimea spread over gun wheel
And what rewards are suggested to all read.
ers OF history by the mere mention of the Wa
terloo edal, and the Cape medal. aud the
Gold Cross medal, and the medal struck for
bravery in our American wars! But how in
significant all these compared with the day
when the good soldiers of Jesus Christ shall
come in out OF the battles of this world, and in
redeemed and the unfalien, Jesus our King,
shall divide the spoil! The more wolnds the
greater the inheritance. The longer the forced
march the brighter the trophy. The more ter
Iihc the exhaustion the more glorious the
transport, Not the gift OF a brilliant ribbon,
ora medal OF brass, or silver, or gold, but a
Kingdom In which we are TO reign for ever and
ever. Mansions on the eternal hills. DImln-
ions OF uniading power. Empires OF unending
love. Cohtinents of everlasting light. Allan
tic and Pacific oceans of blllowlng 10y. IL was
great day when Aurelian, the Roman en-
pcror came back from his victories. In the
'front.' OF the procession were wild beasts from
all lands, sixteen hundred gladiators richly
9uered ciltes; among the captiyes Syrlans
EgypliarB, Goths, Vandals Sarmaians,
FranEs, and Zenobia, the beautiful captive
queen, on foot Ia chains of gold that, slave
the weight of which she almost tainted. And
lhen came the chariot of Aurelian, drawn by
iour elephants in gorgeous caparlson, and fol-
lowed by the Roman senate and Roman army,
ana from dawn Till dark the procession was
passing Rome in all her history never saw
anything more magnificent. But how much
greater the day when our Conqueror, Jesus
shall ride Under the triumphal arches of
heayen, hisoaptives not on foot, but In oharlots,
al the Kingdoms of earth and heaven in pro-
cession, the armies celestial on white horses
rumbline artillery of thunderbolts never again
70 be unllmbered; Kingdoms in line centuries
IN ilne, sanity, cherubic, seraphic, archan-
gelic splendors in line, aud Christ, seated on
one great rolling hosanna. made out OF all hal
leluJahs OF all worlds, shall cry "Halt |" TO the
pioeessioni and, not forgetting even the hum
shall rise, and then and there, His work done
ana HIS glory consummated, proceed, amid an
ecstacy such as neither mortal nor immortal
ever imagined to divide the spoil.